BMJ Group announces new appointments - January 21, 2008
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Janet O'Flaherty and Julie Solomon as Publishers of the Group's specialist journals portfolio. Janet has worked at the BMJ Group since 1997 as Managing Editor on a range of specialist titles and Julie Solomon joins… Read More
Dr. Beth Y. Karlan named new Editor-in-Chief for Gynecologic Oncology - January 21, 2008
Dr. Beth Y. Karlan has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gynecologic Oncology, effective January 1, 2008. Dr. Karlan replaces Dr. David M. Gershenson, who has stepped down following 17 years as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Dr. Karlan is the Director of the Women's Cancer Research Institute… Read More
Knowledgespeak Exclusive - January 21, 2008
An interview with Pinar Erzin, Managing Director, Accucoms B.V. Read More
DFG funds licence for entire Nature archive for German institutions - January 18, 2008
Goettingen University Library (SUB), the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), and scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, have announced a national deal. Under the deal, all universities, government institutions and publicly funded research institutions in Germany will obtain access to the complete… Read More
Illinois Wesleyan, Marquette universities opt for Digital Commons solution - January 18, 2008
Publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), US, has announced that the libraries of Illinois Wesleyan University and Marquette University (WI) have signed contracts to use bepress' document repository software, Digital Commons. Also, both institutions are implementing bepress's SelectedWorks, a platform for building individual faculty pages. SelectedWorks and… Read More
Portico signs archiving agreement with MIT Press - January 18, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the MIT Press, US, to preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 33 titles. With this inclusion, over 7,300 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Through this agreement with Portico,… Read More
